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INTRODUCTION
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Ezra, or to trace the analogy between the two Books, and between
their versions severally. I have already referred to the article in
which (in D. C. B.} I have raised those points, and I desire now in
closing to refer to the article Esdras, First Book of, in Hastings'
Dictionary of the Bible, vol. i, in which Mr. Thackeray notes (p. 761)
the affinity between the Chisian Daniel and our 1 Esdras, and shows a
disposition to adopt my view (which he quotes from D. C. B.) that they
are the work of the same translator. Dr. Swete likewise (Introduction
to O.T. in Greek, Pt. I,
ch. ii. 9, p. 48) regards it with favour. The
Catena with which I have dealt in these pages tends (I submit) to
support this theory, by its preference for these versions over their
generally received rivals, though the latter are closer to the Hebrew.
And as I have shown above, through the Catena we are warranted
in claiming the Hexapla, and its illustrious author, in favour of the
claims to reverent acceptance, not only of the Daniel of the Chisian
MS., but on like grounds those of the "First Esdras," so long and
widely popular, and owned as Scripture by so many and great Fathers
of the Church, but in these latter times rejected as apocryphal, and
almost forgotten.